A court hearing originally scheduled this week in the murder case involving Iryna Zarutska’s death on Charlotte’s light rail line has been rescheduled for Oct. 27.
State health regulators are asking a judge to pause his consideration of class action status for a lawsuit targeting mental health services provided to North Carolina jail inmates.
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Decarlos Brown Jr., the man who allegedly fatally stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in the neck on Aug. 22 on Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line, has been found “incapable to proceed” on the state murder charge against him.
A lawsuit targeting mental health services available to inmates in North Carolina’s county jails could move forward as a class-action complaint.
Homicide rates in NCs five largest cities either held steady or declined in 2025, an improvement over the negative trends in violent crime seen following the pandemic.
The judge overseeing the federal case against Decarlos Brown Jr. in the 2025 stabbing death of Iryna Zarutska clarified Wednesday an earlier order shielding information about the case from public view.
A federal judge indicated Tuesday that he will not seek additional limits on state legislators’ Feb. 9 hearing on crime and public safety issues in Charlotte.
A state legislative committee has postponed a hearing originally scheduled this week to address crime and public safety in Charlotte.
A federal judge issued an order Thursday blocking Charlotte-Mecklenburg police and North Carolina legislators from releasing information from the criminal investigative file tied to Iryna Zarutska's fatal stabbing last August on Charlotte's light rail line.
A federal judge ordered Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Monday not to release any video or audio related to the federal case involving Iryna Zarutska’s August 2025 killing on the city’s light rail transit line.
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